The Carrier IQ "world" vs. a Personal Data Ecosystem future

Read Write Web’s Marshak Kirkpatrick just posted a great article outlining the issues with the Carrier IQ issues that have surfaced.  It also includes an extensive quote from me about how data has value and it needs to be accessed in ways that are in …

Identity in the Contexts of the Future OR Participatory Totalitarianism

This is the latest from Google in their “names policy” We understand that your identity on Google+ is important to you, and our Name Policy may not be for everyone at this time. Kinda sounds like the owners of stores in the south who said their stores were not for everyone especially black people who […]

Web Wide Sentence Level Annotation -> Hypothes.is

I first met Dan Whaley last spring via an introduction from Jim Fournier co-founder of Planetwork.  I was inspired by the vision he was working on building Hypothes.is –  a way to have sentence level annotation of news and other articles on a web w…

Open Letter to Google+ Profile Support

On Sep 19, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Google Profiles Support wrote:
Hi,
Thank you for contacting us with regard to our review of the name you are trying to use in your Google Profile. After review of your appeal, we have determined that the name you want to…